Flight nurse

I am going to talk about a flight nurse.

For becoming a flight nurse

In order to become a flight nurse, a registered nurse's qualification is required. They need to graduate from a junior college, a university, or a vocational school after the graduation from a high school, and need to acquire nurse license in response to a state examination. However, the qualification for becoming a flight nurse does not exist. The conditions for becoming a flight nurse vary with a hospital. However, in almost all cases, the years of service to the company for five years or more have been one standard. And in almost all hospitals, the nurse who becomes a flight nurse by a desire system is selected. Now, there is "target which the Japanese Society for Aeromedical Services flight nurse committee has proposed." There, things typical as conditions required since it becomes a flight nurse are the following conditions. "The experience as a nurse is for five years or more. And those who are experienced in the emergency care for three years or more. Furthermore, the nurse who can act as the leader as an emergency nurse" A suitable experience is required in order to work at the severe spot. The person who became a flight nurse has various reasons. However, emergency lifesaving is carried out as long as there is power which it can have as a flight nurse.

A flight nurse's places of work are two places, the inside of a hospital and a helicopter. Only a flight nurse's inside of a helicopter is not a place of work. The flight nurse is nursing the conveyed patient as a nurse usually in the critical care center of the House. The organization of emergency care is divided according to three severity of illness. Moreover, the organization of emergency care corresponds even in the secondary-medical-care area based on the medical scheme drawn up by all prefectures. The emergency lifesaving center where a flight nurse works is one of "the third emergency care.” The critical patient who cannot respond by secondary emergency care is accepted on a 24-hour basis. A flight nurse stands by in the emergency lifesaving center as a flight nurse several times per month, working at the spot accepted on a 24-hour basis. The flight nurse is nursing the always critical patient.

What kind of one day does the flight nurse of helicopter service pass?

They attend their office a little early in the morning. Because, it is for checking medical implements, medicine, and its own property so that a helicopter can be mobilized at any time. Moreover, a flight nurse's work also checks the contents of the doctor bag. If it becomes operating time of onset, a meeting will start. There is connection of the existence of the weather of the day, sunset time, and helicopter training, etc. They are helping the emergency visit between under standby.

If a mobilization request starts, the contents of the mobilization request will be checked at an operation measure room, and it will go to a heliport with a doctor. It takes only several minutes until a doctor helicopter flies away from a mobilization request. Within a helicopter, since sound is uncanny, a headset is attached, and information is exchanged. The equipment which will be considered to be required by the time it arrives at the spot is prepared, and it makes arrangements with a doctor. If it arrives at the spot, a doctor will hear a patient's appearance from a rescue crew. And the hospital of a conveyance place is contacted. Taking a measure, they ride on a doctor helicopter and go to a hospital. Required measures are taken also within the doctor helicopter which goes to the hospital of a conveyance place. Moreover, I get the family of attendance to speak about a detailed condition. If it arrives at a hospital, the appearance of the patient within a doctor helicopter will be reported to an emergency visit's doctor and nurse.

And it prepares for the next mobilization request and fills up medical implements, medicine, etc. which were used. If standby time is completed, a flight nurse will write record of the mobilized helicopter to a diary. Moreover, the flight staff of the day gathers and there is also a hospital which is holding the meeting.

Hello, everyone.

Today, I am going to talk about the helicopter first aid of Japan.

 The doctor helicopter business which started in earnest in 2001 increased that it became 4,444 number of dispatch, 4,253 medical treatment numbers of people in 11 places of the whole countryin2006. The number of dispatch increased by 8.4 percent in compared with 2005. The number of dispatch of the doctor helicopter increases year by year.

The dispatch request of doctor helicopter is three cases.

First, when the communication order person in charge of the firefighting headquarters order center judges the need of the doctor helicopter from perception content.
Secondly, when an ambulance crew observes the sick and wounded on the spot, and judges the need of the doctor helicopter.
Thirdly, when a doctor judges the transfer to a more highly advanced emergency care engine or a specialized medical institution to be necessary.When the disabled is dangerously ill. The doctor who gets into a doctor helicopter performs required treatment at the emergency spot. And the doctor conveys patient information using radio to conveyance medical institution. The doctor corresponding to the radio convenes man power and prepares for the necessary examination and treatment. The staff of the hospital becomes able to in this way accept the disabled by the perfect system. The staff of the hospital becomes able to in this way accept the disabled by the perfect system. In this way, a lifesaving rate of the seriously ill patient improves, and aftereffects are reduced. The navigation of the doctor helicopter requires pilot, mechanic, three people of the navigation manager at least. In the case of the dispatch, pilot, mechanic, doctor, four people of the nurse are dispatched. A doctor and a nurse boarding a helicopter have charge. On a charge day, doctor helicopter dispatch is placed as top priority duties. For the time to takeoff from a dispatch request, it takes an average of 3.1 minutes in Chiba and for an average of 3.79 minutes of the whole country. It may be said that it is under the quick dispatch system in each place. The navigation is the 365 days system, but bad weather and the night navigation do not. In Chiba, It set the navigation time from 8:30 a.m. to sunset and navigate. The place of the taking off and landing chooses a safe place. In Chiba, the heliport for emergency owns 980 places now.The main place is a park, the ground of the elementary and junior high school, a sports stadium. But when there is distance from the spot to the heliport, If security is secured by the cooperation of the firefighting organization, The space where the pilot judged that taking off and landing is possible can take off and land. In addition, about the lifesaving activity of the disabled by the traffic accident on the expressway, examination is pushed forward in each place.In Chiba, taking off and landing was enabled on the expressway Main Line which met the standard that was more constant than April, 2007.

another county’s condition~United States of America~

Hello, everyone.

Today, I am going to talk about another county’s condition. This time, I am goigto talk about the helicopter first aid of United States of America.

The helicopter first aid of America was tried by the armed forces and the police. However, the armed forces and the police were not able to do only first aid, because they had another mission. Therefore, the emergency helicopter stood by as based in a hospital, and a method that the emergency helicopter picked up medical staff, and flied to the spot began in 1972.The hospital of the beginning set up the heliport on the roof. And it charters a private helicopter and a private helicopter wait day and night. Then, a private helicopter is sent according to request from the fire department headquarters. At first, a doctor and a nurse boarded the helicopter. However, the boarding of the doctor to a helicopter was canceled to cost. And only paramedic and a flight nurse made to get into a helicopter. Therefore, medical control developed with an important meaning. The model of a helicopter first aid of America is a flight range is wide, so it fly to a radius of 200km.It also flies by night. Recently, when the weather is bad, it does instrument flight. The navigation costs are benefit principle. It is the burden on patient, but, actually, it is paid by medical insurance. Furthermore, it is paid by relief insurance "Medicaid" of the public medical insurance "Medicare" and life poor for an elderly person and people with a disability. By the way, the United States is said that there are few members of the medical insurance. However, recently, the uninsured decreased to around 15% when it included such a public insurance. It was revealed that it was advantageous by the aspect of the hospital management when they used a helicopter in this way. Most of the patients were only the people near the hospital till then. However, inpatients increased as a range spread by a helicopter. And the availability of the bed improved. Besides, a patient calling a helicopter is the person of the rich person or affiliate to medical insurance. Furthermore, the treatment regimen has much high treatment because a patient is seriously ill. Therefore the length of stay becomes long more than normal double. Therefore the incomes of the hospital increase, too.

The helicopter first aid was thought that it was too expensive to put into practice. However, while it passed for several years, not only a doctor but also the hospital manager noticed that it have the advantage. And, in the 1980s, the emergency helicopter of the hospital base has begun to increase suddenly. And the emergency helicopter program increased to approximately 200 places by the mid-1990s.

The patient who received first aid by the helicopter first aid system is approximately 250,000 people a year. In other words, it shows that one helicopter helps more than 700 people.

 

I am going to talk about the present conditions of our country next week.

See you.

Another county’s condition~Germany~

Hello, everyone.

Today, I am going to talk about another county’s condition. On the next time, I will talk about the helicopter first aid of Germany.

In the German National expressways autobahn, over 20000 persons passed away in the traffic accident every year in1960s.The helicopter emergency by the German automobile league ADAC started in order to reduce it. In November, 1970, the first helicopter began a wait in Harahinn hospital in Munich. The helicopter took charge of the area of a radius of 50 kilometer and aircraft kilometer performed 15 minutes from base hospital. And as a rule, the helicopter picks doctor and paramedic up within two minutes from a mobilization request, and takes off. At first, it is the biggest duty that the helicopter takes a doctor to the spot with the helicopter rather than the conveyance of the patient. The helicopter takes the stable patient of the condition to the appropriate hospital in accord with a symptom. And The patient meets a doctor in an average of eight minutes, within 15 minutes and receives emergency treatment on the spot. In addition, The navigation expense of the helicopter with these engines is covered with social insurance mainly involving the health insurance. The navigation expenses of the helicopter include the contribution elsewhere, too. In addition, the part which the organization of the country performs assumes public money basics, and this joins health insurance. The base number of helicopters increased in 35 places in 1985.And the traffic death became more than 10, 000 people. In other words, it was reduced to half in 15 years. And, in 1990 when unification with East Germany was established, the base number of helicopters became 38 places. And the traffic accident death toll decreased to nearly a one-third. What you should pay attention to in a German emergency system "is 15 minutes rule".　In the enforcement regulations of the emergency law, it is provided that the first aid must start it around 15 minutes. A state law is maintained in the form in conformity with this. As for the German helicopter first aid system which accomplished steady development, a base became established to 78 places of whole country recently. In　2003 , the mobilization track records are more than 83, 000 times a year. One place of average is 1, 067 times. The person rescued in 2003 amounts to 70, 000. In the navigation organization of the helicopter, there are the ADAC aviation rescue company which is affiliated with the federation of German car (ADAC), NPO corporation Germany air rescue (DRF), the Department of the Interior disaster prevention office, the border police now. Recently, the private enterprises increased too.

A quick of transportation is indispensable to win a race against time. Under the present conditions, a helicopter is the quickest emergency means of transportation. Therefore, it is indispensable for emergency care to use the helicopter for the movement of the doctor and the conveyance of the patient. And it is a part of the treatment means. And then, the navigation expense of the helicopter will cover in health insurance or medical insurance in Germany.

I am going to talk about another county’s condition too. On the next time, I will talk about the helicopter first aid of United States of America. See you.

Problem(2)

 

Hello everyone. Today I am going to talk about Cooperation with an operational hour and a fire-fighting disaster-prevention helicopter and the configuration of an information system.

 

First of all, I talk about Cooperation with an operational hour and a fire-fighting disaster-prevention helicopter. Subjects are arranging a doctor helicopter all over the country and expanding operation time. In investigation of Chiba Prefecture, the percentage which the deceased generated in the traffic accident within doctor helicopter operation time is only 30 percent. However, when it was assumed that the activity time of a doctor helicopter is extended from sunrise till 8:00 at night, it became clear for it to be able to deal with about 45% of fatal accident. From such a background, examination about operation time expansion of a doctor helicopter was carried out in Chiba Prefecture in the 2007 fiscal year. Another subject is the cooperation organization of a fire-fighting disaster prevention helicopter and a doctor helicopter. In order to utilize the feature which each helicopter has to the utmost, it is necessary to clarify each business. The fire-fighting disaster prevention helicopter is specializing in a search and rescue, conveyance between hospitals, and medical conveyance of a detached island and a remote district. As for a doctor helicopter, specializing in carrying a patient from the spot is desirable.

 

Secondly, I talk about the configuration of an information system.

ADMS (Atlas and Database of Air Medical Services) is the map information for the aeromedical service currently used in the United States. It is the database which accumulated information, including the mobilization base of a helicopter, a communications center, a trauma center, other medical facilities, etc., required for an emergency helicopter. There are a nonprofit institution, a company, and a public institution (police, fire fighting) in the organization of operation of a helicopter. Furthermore, the information on the army which offers emergency business daily is also included in it. As information on the helicopter itself, a waiting position, a model, the number of machines, and a registration symbol are indicated. Furthermore, this is put on the Internet in combination with a geographic information system (GIS:Geographic Information System). So, it can see as a map on the Internet even from where. On the other hand, the accident automatic report system (ACN:AutomaticCrash Notification) is positioned by one of the high-speed traffic systems (ITS:Intelligent Transportation Systems). It is a system automatically connected to a special operator, when an automobile accident occurs and the air bag. When there is no response of a driver to an operator's question, it is a mechanism in which an operator demands arrangements of an ambulance or a police car promptly instead of a driver. Originally, DAMS was developed for the purpose of conveying the accident information acquired by ACN to the optimal hospital. Both ADMS and ACN do not have familiarity in our country. It makes a helicopter mobilize quickly, when got seriously injured in the independent accident in which the witness is not. It reduces the people killed in a traffic accident. And it is hard working that reducing after effect positively. Also in our country, since "Special Measures Law about the reservation of emergency care using the helicopter for emergency care" was approved and enacted by the ordinary Diet session in June, 2007, it is thought that the number of doctor helicopter base hospitals increases within several years sharply. It is shortening time until it starts medical treatment from the occurrence of an accident and Japan should aim at reducing fatalities from traffic accidents and reducing after effect.

Problem

Hello,everyone.

Today, I am going to about problem of the doctor helicopter.

Although there are three problems, I speak about burden of expense this time.

It is a national pressing matter that to reduce preventable death of many emergency seriously patients including surface wound. However, if this solution has no performing proper and sufficient arrangement of a doctor helicopter system, it is difficult. Construction of the same system as overseas is desired also in our country. For that purpose, reservation of the source of revenue in connection with helicopter emergency and training of the urgent visit clinic which takes charge of emergency care are the most important issues.

【Maintenance expense and an effect 】
 

Although the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare hung up maintenance of 30 doctor helicopters in five years, only operation of 1/3 is realized in five years in fact. As the reason, it is pointed out that each prefecture must work out the burden charge of a little less than 100 million yen per year. However, when the cost effectiveness in a doctor helicopter enterprise is seen, the doctor helicopter of the expense per mobilization is larger than an ambulance. However, the serious illness level for mobilization object is also large Compared with the ambulance, it is shown clearly that the mobilization efficiency of a doctor helicopter is high. Furthermore, the required annual expense (about 10 billion yen) at the time of arranging a doctor helicopter at 50 places across the country is only 1.8% of the expense (about 560 billion yen) concerning ambulance conveyance currently employed in the present whole country. Although the prejudice that a doctor helicopter has a very large economic burden is going out of control, the operation expense of a doctor helicopter is by no means large compared with the expense which ambulance conveyance takes.

 

【Operation expense and public-benefit】

The greatest factor that obstructs promotion of maintenance of a doctor helicopter is a burden problem of the operation expense. Now, the doctor helicopter operates at the total amount public expenditure burden by halving of a country and all prefectures. However, this all-prefectures burden is difficult in the small prefecture of scale of central and local public finance because of financial difficulties. Therefore, one doctor helicopter is not yet arranged in each district in Hokuriku, San-in, and Shikoku, either. That is, maintenance of a doctor helicopter does not progress only by using only public expenditure. Though it progresses, maintenance of the small prefecture of fiscal scale will be postponed. Furthermore, there is a possibility that regional differences may be expanded to the life which should be saved. When the solution of this problem is considered, it is making the total of operation expense into State liability like France. If it is considered as total amount public money burden, regional differences will not come out. However, this system which "it is in region that it can do region" moves against the current of the times. It is required to also ask for a burden the insurer and the insured of the various social insurance which is beneficiary of doctor helicopter employment.

 The problem of the burden of expense was taken up this time. I am going to talk about Cooperation with an operational hour and a fire-fighting disaster-prevention helicopter and the configuration of an information system.

See you.

 

 

Activity

Hello, everyone.

Today, I am going to about activity of the doctor helicopter. I am not good at English. Therefore, I may use sometimes wrong English. But I do my best!

This time, I am going to write about two talks of a doctor helicopter which played an active part.

【The doctor helicopter which saved the young life】

On January 2, 2008, a then 3-year-old boy fell in the pond accidentally in the town in eastern Aichi. When a father rescued a son, the accident in which it was already in the cardiopulmonary arrest state occurred. The boy's aunt demanded the ambulance.

And the boy's family had given heart-and-lungs revival with the directions by fire-fighting headquarters. The ambulance arrived soon. The ambulance officer guessed having fallen into a serious condition. And the ambulance officer requested mobilization of the doctor helicopter from fire-fighting headquarters. However, since it was already mobilized by another patient's generating, the doctor helicopter in Aichi was not able to be demanded. Therefore, fire-fighting headquarters requested mobilization of the doctor helicopter from SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL of Shizuoka Prefecture. The boy was rode on the ambulance. Then, it was accommodated in the doctor helicopter from the rendezvous point which is a junction with a doctor helicopter. And the boy was carried to the prefectural child hospital in Shizuoka, and he survived. Mostly, there are many cases of carry to a base hospital by dispatch into territory. However, this was dispatched to the "another prefecture" and was carried in "the hospital which is not a base hospital." This is the precious case from which it succeeded in delivery of the baton of a life, and saved the human life.

 

【Great East Japan Earthquake】

In the Great East Japan Earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, DMAT and doctor helicopters from the whole country gathered to the base. Patient conveyance made Hanamaki Airport the base and was performed from the large stricken area over three months. It played an active part in the stricken area where the trunk road was cut off by tsunami or an earthquake as a means by which a patient can be carried from sky.

The doctor helicopter saved the life.
The boy who was in the hospital of Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi was carried to Shizuoka Children's Hospital of Shizuoka by the doctor helicopter.
This newborn infant is holding heavy cardiopathy and it was not able to take a thoroughgoing medical treatment attitude in a stricken area. Condition was stable although the boy did not allow prejudgment. The doctor helicopter of Shizuoka Prefecture (SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL) was mobilized. It was eager work in the inside where a tsunami warning sounds. Dr. Hiroshi Machida dispatched from Maebashi Red Cross Hospital of Gumma Prefecture as a disaster relief medical team "DMAT" told. They strove for the rescue of the patient from a city hospital destroyed from tsunami in Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi. The DMAT member of 29 and eight hospitals and seven doctor helicopters carried the patient who exceeds 100 persons.The Self-Defense-Forces helicopter was also added behind and rescue lasted midnight.

 

The above is activity of some doctor helicopters. I am glad, if you read this and get interested in a doctor helicopter.

I am going to talk about problem of the doctor helicopter next time. See you, next time.